Trinkkuranlage, Bad Nauheim
Drinking mineral water was never staged more beautifully: a horseshoe of Jugendstil colonnades, a basin, an orchestra shell and a little eight-sided temple…
Drinking mineral water was never staged more beautifully: a horseshoe of Jugendstil colonnades, a basin, an orchestra shell and a little eight-sided temple…
The pharmacy built after the fire became the memory-keeper of the whole town: Norway’s National Art Nouveau Centre lives inside Ålesund’s finest Jugendstil…
Two golden angels raise their cups over a narrow doorway off the Graben — a pharmacy’s medieval shop sign reborn as one of the most beloved Jugendstil…
Once an hour, a figure from Vienna’s past drifts across a golden bridge above Hoher Markt; at noon all twelve parade in procession to the music of their own…
On Vienna’s most polished shopping street, Max Fabiani hung a facade of thin marble slabs over a modern frame in 1900 — Otto Wagner’s doctrine made stone…
A facade of plain glazed tiles, laid in a uniform grid with no ornament: in the Vienna of 1900 that was enough to cause a scandal — and to make the young Max…
A city under one roof, built by the president’s grandfather: the Lucerna Palace threads cinema, ballroom, café and shops along a marble passage — with Saint…
A crown of illuminated pearls closes the bottom of Wenceslas Square: the Koruna Palace of 1914, where Prague’s Art Nouveau turned geometric and started…
Prague’s Art Nouveau century begins here: the Hotel Central, opened in November 1901, brought the new floral style to the city’s hotel trade — and Auguste…
Built to sell cast iron, it ended up selling a view: the Hanau ironworks’ exhibition pavilion of 1891 now stands on the Letná heights, its filigree balconies…